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Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Relishes His Role as a Mentor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. candidate in material science and engineering at the University of Central Florida. He wasn’t surrounded by college graduates or even friends who were planning to enroll. Fast forward to 2023.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. are immense. of the U.S.

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Carnegie Mellon Launches $150M STEM Diversity Initiative

Inside Higher Ed

Carnegie Mellon University announced today a $116 million donation from the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to help underrepresented students pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Amber student housing gets $21m injection

The PIE News

Since its genesis in 2017, Amber, which is headquartered in Pune, has developed a global presence across Europe, UK, US, Canada and Australia. The student housing company stated that the new round of funding will be used to continue efforts at global expansion, as well as for enhancing its AI-based pricing engine for property managers.

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STEM PhDs With Disabilities Earn Less, Hold Fewer Leadership Roles

Insight Into Diversity

A recent study by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers highlights significant financial and professional obstacles faced by PhD graduates with disabilities in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields in academia. Analyzing data from 1.15 million U.S.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 Specifically, the proportion of men in the three most prevalent groups of the technical workforce, ‘science, engineering and production technicians’, ‘IT technicians’ and ‘architectural technicians’, is much higher than that of women (5.0,

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Seeing New Horizons

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

André Childs       Institution:   University of Central Florida Graduate Program:   Material Science and Engineering Education: Ph.D. However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. Fast forward to 2023. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D.